LGBTI Rights in Bosnia and Herzegovina
ADDED ON: 05/12/2023
Europe’s leading LGBT rights organisation, ILGA-Europe has criticised Serbia and Turkey for their handling of LGBT community rights in its latest Rainbow Map and Index. The report says the pushbacks LGBT communities are facing…
ADDED ON: 03/20/2023
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina -- Rights activists in the Serb-run part of Bosnia were assaulted late Saturday, hours after police banned an LGBT event planned there over the weekend, citing security concerns. The attack took…
ADDED ON: 03/10/2023
Participants in the 12th annual women’s right protest on March 8 in the Bosnian city of Banja Luka, the administrative centre of Bosnia’s Serb-dominated Republika Srpska entity, were verbally and then physically…
ADDED ON: 03/02/2023
Some progress has been made on strengthening LGBT rights in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, and Serbia over the last two decades, in part due to the requirements of the EU accession process.…
ADDED ON: 03/01/2023
After a turbulent post-war period, the three largest countries of the former Yugoslavia – Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, and Serbia – shifted toward greater democracy and Europeanisation in the early 2000s. All three had…
ADDED ON: 10/14/2022
Bosnia and Herzegovina unveiled its first ever strategy to improve the rights and freedoms of LGBT people on Wednesday, a step towards bringing human rights protections in the country into line with…
ADDED ON: 05/29/2022
Courts in three Southeast European countries — Bosnia & Herzegovina, Bulgaria and Croatia — have issued landmark rulings in cases concerning the rights of LGBTI people in recent weeks. The role of…
ADDED ON: 05/03/2022
For all of Dina Bajraktarevic's adult life, Bosnia-Herzegovina has had a law in place banning discrimination, including based on sexual orientation or gender identity. But the 25-year-old native of Tuzla, in northeastern…
ADDED ON: 08/15/2021
Sarajevo’s second-ever Pride parade as well as a counter-protest organised by a hardliner Muslim political campaign group ended peacefully on Saturday. “Aware of discrimination, violence and hate speech, we resist and we…
ADDED ON: 08/11/2021
Vjera Narod Drzava (Faith People State), a recently-founded Muslim political campaign group, has announced that it will stage an “anti-LGBTIQ” protest during the Sarajevo Pride parade on Saturday. The group called on…
ADDED ON: 09/08/2020
Try searching for hashtags related to LGBT issues in countries like Russia, Bosnia, and Jordan on TikTok and you might find no results, even if you were able to see it on…
ADDED ON: 08/11/2020
The office of the grand mufti of Bosnia-Herzegovina has distanced itself from controversial remarks made by the imam of a mosque in Sarajevo that sparked outrage on social media and elsewhere. Muhamed…
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